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Made up of only one cell. Bacteria are single-celled organisms.

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Words nearby single-celled

single-action, single-barrel, single-blind, single bond, single-breasted, single-celled, single-cell protein, single combat, single cream, single-cross, single cut

How to use single-celled in a sentence

There are many kinds of these single-celled plants in the world.
Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures|Arabella B. Buckley
There still exist large numbers of similar “single-celled organisms.”
The History of Creation, Vol. II (of 2)|Ernst Haeckel
Obviously they were simple beings, uni-cellular, some sort of primitive single-celled things.
The Eyes Have It|Philip Kindred Dick
From its appearance and actions, I think it must be a huge single-celled animal of the type of the earthly amoeba.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930|Various

Now the single-celled Infusorian is in many respects comparable with the single-celled germ of the higher animals.
Applied Eugenics|Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson